What a whacko

Former Malaysian Embassy worker Muhammad Rizalman has admitted to smoking cannabis, buying synthetic cannabis and that he believes in black magic, but denies defecating outside the victim’s house to put a spell on her.

It might put a smell on her, rather than a spell!

Mr Burston asked Rizalman about a statement he’d made in Malaysia, saying he’d never bought or used synthetic cannabis.

After being shown bank records, showing an $18.95 transaction at Cosmic on Cuba on May 2 last year, Rizalman admitted buying the legal high there.

Mr Burston said a shop employee had said Rizalman bought the highest-strength cannabis – puff super strength. That costs $15 and cigarette papers costs about $4.

Rizalman accepted that.

Mr Burston then said the employee’s evidence was that Rizalman asked two young female shop assistants if they had a boyfriend and what they were doing later.

“Did that happen?” Mr Burston asked.

“Maybe,” Rizalman replied.

Mr Burston then asked if Rizalman asked one of the women for a drink after work.

“Maybe,” Rizalman replied.

I think maybe means yes.

One of the women told Rizalman to leave him alone, Mr Burston said. He then tried to grab the young woman’s shoulders.

“Did that happen?” Mr Burston asked.

“I can’t remember,” Rizalman replied.

Also means yes.

Rizalman admitted he believed in “black magic”.

He also told a psychiatrist he believed a superior officer had put a spell on him. That officer had an uncle who was a shaman.

What sort of spell I wonder?

“Do you know of a spell that you can put on a woman to make her fall in love with you by defecating outside her house?” Mr Burston asked.

“I don’t know because I’ve never practiced it,” Rizalman said.

“The reason that you took off your belt and lowered your trousers and underpants outside this young woman’s front door, on the patio by her front door, was more about black magic than having to go to the toilet in an emergency?”

“No.”

That may also mean yes!

Rizalman was asked about an assessment report in June last year, which said there was information about Rizalman’s “increased interest towards women”.

“You went to a place called Mermaids in Wellington twice when you felt under pressure,” Mr Burston said.

Is that an aquarium?

“Yes,” Rizalman replied.

“The women were taking their clothes off?”

“Only their outer clothes.”

“The women were topless?”

“Yes.”

“Were you interested in looking at the attractive women in the strip club?”

“No.”

That also means yes

“Why did you go to the strip club?”

“To listen to music and release tension.”

Well in a literal sense he could be telling the truth.

At 9.32am he bought a ticket to the movie Chef.He went to the 11.20 screening. Rizalman said he remembered going to the cinema and sleeping.

About 3pm, he bought a mini bottle of Jack Daniel’s. It was found in Rizalman’s jacket pocket, but he said today he hadn’t been a drinker since before he was married.”I don’t know why I bought it,” Rizalman said, before denying it could be a present for a young woman he hoped to befriend.

After 4.57pm, Rizalman’s phone diverted all calls to his message. Until 9.38pm that night there were 132 unanswered calls from his wife’s cellphone.

Houston we may have a problem.

I take two things away from the article:

Rizalman has serious behavioural problems and we will be better off without him in NZ

His actions towards Ms Billingsley were inappropriate, criminal and terrifying.

I’m glad he has ended up in court for his behaviour. Without this, I suspect he would have carried on.

Nigel

Dexter

And what prominent blogger (no not DPF) claimed;

the horribly slanted way that Tania Billingsley has presented this issue, aided and abetted by the Green Party and TV3 has painted a picture in the public’s mind that Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail is some sort of random sex fiend that decided to follow Tania home to put his unwanted intentions towards her.

The truth will be much closer to an existing relationship that was strained and where Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail misunderstood his place within it.

BeaB

No doubt there are some odd coots in the world. It is hard to credit how anyone took this guy seriously and how he kept his job.

But, without minimising the fear he provoked in his victim, having his pants off may be indecent but it is hardly the rape we have had suggested to us.
Sex offences are so serious and long-lasting in their effects that we need to be careful about the histrionics some politicians and others employ to make their case.
Thank goodness for our courts of law where evidence unfolds in a measured way, within a prescribed set of rules. It is not perfect but it is infinitely better than the hysteria of the media and evangelists.

milkenmild – the Greens exaggerate, distort and over-dramatise so much I find it difficult to ever believe a word they say and consequently never pay them much attention.

David Garrett

In all fairness, I think we may have misjudged Ms Billingsley…If I was a woman, and had this whack job turn up naked from the waist down in my bedroom I don’t think I would be right pleased…let alone how I would react when I found he had taken a dump on my front step…

waikatosinger

David Garrett

Waikato: As I understand it, some of the most “devout” Muslims – the Saudis – also seem to have no problem breaking the strictures of their religion when they are abroad…As, to be fair, do many Christians…whether they are abroad or not..

wiseowl

waikatosinger

Waikato: As I understand it, some of the most “devout” Muslims – the Saudis – also seem to have no problem breaking the strictures of their religion when they are abroad…As, to be fair, do many Christians…whether they are abroad or not..

I have met many visitors from muslim countries who enjoy a quiet sinful drink or two, and one or two might even (gasp!) indulge in a bacon sandwich just to see what it is they are missing. But I have yet to meet anyone whose idea of a sinful good time when let off the leash is to try to cast a love spell on someone by pooing in their garden. That is not just breaking a few strictures of your religion. That is evidence of belief in a completely different religion.

Gabby

How that hussy could lead the poor man on, plying him with drink and flaunting her bedroom door, and then have the audacity to drag poor Ponyboy in on a matter that he had nothing to do with and could have just shut the fuck up about. Shameless.

fernglas

Oil seems to have got it right yet again;

“I still believe the two knew each other. This wasn’t a random attack. He may have been at her place many times before. He may in fact have had a relationship of sorts with her before. He may in fact have been in the process of playing a silly prank which would have worked out just fine had the relationship been up to it. Instead, it caused a spectacular backfire.

He left the house and stood in the street waiting for police to arrive. None of this appears to be predatory and criminally intended behaviour.”

Captain Mainwaring

“How that hussy could lead the poor man on, plying him with drink and flaunting her bedroom door, and then have the audacity to drag poor Ponyboy in on a matter that he had nothing to do with and could have just shut the fuck up about. Shameless.”

Gabby, run this vicious crap past us again and see if we get the message the next time. I don’t think we will.
You really are a seriously demented piece of work. Why don’t you just go away for a long holiday in North Korea with Yoza? You two might like it there. And you might like each other.

dime

Billingsley made a huge mistake in roping in the Green Party when going public with this. Wailing, screeching feminists are always crying “wolf” with rape and sexual assault, so when the accusation is actually real, nobody believes them.

In future, if you are a victim of unwanted sexual advances of any sort, don’t run to the sisterhood, because people like me are just going to think you are full of shit. I wish we lived in a better world than that, but I’m only human.

Report it to the police, stay out of the media, don’t touch the leftist politicians with any sort of barge pole, and save the details for court. Billingsley in this instance was very lucky that her stalker seems to be so excessively stupid. A smarter man with a smart lawyer might have made this process a lot more difficult.